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STERN ON SCREEN

Sophie Khadr is amazed by the first Howard Stern Film Festival in New York.

In February of this year, Howard Stern, ‘shock jock’ notorious for the explicit content of his radio shows, called for submissions for a film festival, to be held in his native New York. I found myself spluttering with disbelief, and something verging on admiration for the self- proclaimed ‘king of all media’. Most audacious was the specification that the storyline for each film entry must centre on Howard Stern himself…